Commoners
Commoners
$67.00
USDThis is a paperback edition of one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history published in the past generation. Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages, and that their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted on popular culture a pervasive sense of loss.
- Winner of Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994
- Considerable 'green' interest - very extensive and laudatory review in The Ecologist
- Major contribution to debates about eighteenth-century English society, in tradition of E. P. Thompson
Reviews & endorsements
"Commoners....will transform the understanding of [eighteenth-century] agrarian and social history." Customs in Common
"Little can be said in criticism of this wonderful book....Commoners is a major contribution to an emerging view." Journal of Economic History
Product details
January 1996Paperback
9780521567749
400 pages
214 × 137 × 21 mm
0.51kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The question of value
- Part I. Survival:
- 2. Who had common right? 3. Threats before enclosure
- 4. Ordering the commons
- 5. Enforcing the orders
- 6.The uses of waste
- Part II. Decline:
- 7. Two villages
- 8. Decline and disappearance
- 9. Resisting enclosure
- Part III. Conclusion:
- 10. 'Making freeman of the slave'
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
